Community Season 6 News, Rumors, And Casting : Dan Harmon, Joel McHale, Gillian Jacobs, Jim Rash, And Dino Stamatopoulos Go To Comic Con [PHOTO]

Community Season 6 is coming to Yahoo. Recently the cast and crew sat down at San Diego Comic Con to talk about the upcoming season, and reveal some spoilers. 

"It's season six of 'Community' - you'll be watching it the way you always watched it, only now, it's legal!" creator Dan Harmon quipped of the show's loyal fanbase: anyone who is smart enough to get the jokes and young enough to like meta-comedy also knows how to steal it online, which was one of the big problems with the show that always had an intensely loyal fan base, but never got the ratings NBC wanted from it. 

Speaking about the move to Yahoo, Harmon said, "Yahoo called me and they seemed really smart and cool," he said. "I thought... 'I cannot be the one to not do this.'"

He then went on to give a sarcastically enthusiastic endorsement for Yahoo Screen"You're telling me I can get this on my desktop? With a click of my finger?" Jim Rash gasped, getting into the spirit of the public shilling.

Star Joel McHale said he had no doubts, saying "I had no doubt we would be back because - well, like a Japanese general in WWII, the only option was victory or suicide. As I've said a lot, I love the show, I love the way Dan looks all the time. To have any show be on for as long as it has is a hard thing and then for the show to be as good as it is, I believe, because it is the greatest television show in history. So I always wanted it back - if they would pay me what Jim Parsons is making." 

Co-star Gillian Jacobs admitted that she "shed a tear the day that we were canceled - I cried in my car," before recalling that she heard the news of the show's resurrection through Twitter.

"It's been a blessing each season to go to the next one," Rash agreed. "To go to six and see that hashtag [#sixseasonsandamovie] potentially come to fruition is very exciting."

When talking about potential difference from the new platform Harmon said,  "My philosophy is, [let's] attempt to make the same show and let the lack of boundaries make themselves felt instead of saying, 'we can make the episode 49 minutes long and say the F word the entire time.'"

Harmon has yet to start writing the new season, so admitted he doesn't "have any big, high-falutin' plans." He does know that the focus of "Community" will shouldn't be romance "It's not necessarily just a workplace comedy... [but] centering the show on a relationship, to me, would be the beginning of the end."

"It's contractually possible for John Oliver to come back," Harmon said of the British thesp's recurring role as Professor Ian Duncan. "We're not gonna tear him away from his amazing HBO show, but..."

"He does it once a week!" McHale interjected out.

Harmon teased that the search for Troy may be the stuff movies are made of "Troy's out there somewhere - he may be in peril... that's what movies are made of," he teased, adding that instead of "The Search for Spock," they might launch "The Search for Troy."

Before wrapping up, Harmon dished out one fun fact. When a fan asked exactly where the show is set in Colorado, Harmon explained, "We wanted it to be kind of Anywhere, USA. I just thought, why specify where you are? The weird thing about producing TV is the legal team needs you to tell them where the show is. They need a state so that if you name a character June Johnson, they have to say, 'Well, there's a bunch of June Johnsons in Colorado.' If there's a bunch of them, then they can't sue us. If there's only one, we can't do it."

Harmon also said, " We will continue to make the show weekly, it's not going to be one of those all-at-once models, so in some ways people will continue to watch the show as they've always watched it."

Harmon also elaborated about relationships in the show,"  Community is an ensemble show, about human beings. Human beings fall in love, they have crushes, they are sexual beings, romantic beings ... that's the most important thing. It's not necessarily just a workplace comedy, so centering the show on a relationship would be the beginning of the end. I think there's an organic energy that takes place, you feel the audience, you feel the writers' room and you let these stories happen. Jeff and Britta called their marriage off at the end of the last episode. They are childish people who were going to get married because they thought the show was over, now the show's not over, so we will see what happens."

The actors then went on to speculate about their characte's trajectory across the next season.

McHale said, "Jeff's like a moth, there's a light and he'll go to it, then he'll say maybe I shouldn't go to it, then he does it anyway. I never presume to know what Jeff's going to do, maybe grow a tail. When I open up Dan [Harmon]'s scripts it's like opening a Christmas present."

Gillian Jacobs said, " I think Britta had some victories last season that were on purpose. I don't think she'll ever stop being the butt of the jokes. I think she's many years from a degree, then she has to find a clinic that will hire her and patients that would accept her as a therapist. Maybe she could become an animal psychiatrist. The possibilities are truly limited."

Harmon added, "The show can definitely move away from Greendale. I think it's has always been about more than just a school. Going away for Season four and then having to come back and reboot it, it changed so much about what I would have said in season three about the future.

So that is almost everything said at the Yahoo "Community" panel. "Community" season 6 will air this fall on Yahoo Screen. 

Sources: The Guardian, Screenrant, io9, Variety 

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